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Dog Park: Review Information: Mechanics:  Time Track, Area Majority, Set Collection Player Age: 10 + Player Count: 1 - 4 Players Time to Play:  40 - 80  Minutes  Publisher : Birdwood Games Game Designer:  Lottie Hazell, Jack Hazell Game Artist: Kate Avery, Holly Exley, Dann May Year Published: 2022 BGG Weight:  2.16 Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introductions: Dog Park is a game themed around the lavish lifestyle of being a dog walker. Players will play over four rounds, selecting new dogs to add to the kennel, selecting which dogs to send on walks, at what pace, and what locations to stop at during the walk and finally returning the dogs home. Players are pursuing reputation from their objective card, some dogs end-game scoring, and largely the set collection of certain breeds. Players will have to be willing to change the dogs they are walking, as well as the dogs in their kennel to fully o...

Tokaido: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Time Track, Set Collection,  Player Age:  8+  Player Count:  2 - 5 Players Time to Play:  45  Minutes  Game Designer:   Antoine Bauza Game Artist:  Xavier Gueniffey Durin Publisher : Funforge Year Published:  2012 BGG Weight:  1.74 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Rundown: Players are travelling through Japan and with any good holiday you know it's always about the journey, not necessarily the destination. That is exactly what this game has players focusing on; the journey. This is a time track game that allows players to stop at any destination along the track, knowing that only one player can visit a destination at a time. At the start of every turn the active player will be the last player on the track. On their turn they can choose to go to any location as long as it isn't past the next inn. These destinations vary from taking in glori...

Trekking Through History: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Drafting, Set Collection, Time Track Player Age:  10+ Player Count:  1 - 4 Players Game Designer:  Charlie Bink Game Artist:  Eric Hibbeler Publisher:  Underdog Games  Time to Play:  30 - 60 Minutes  Year Published:  2022 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the VR Distribution. Rundown: Trekking Through History has players going on a 3-day tour throughout history, creating treks in ascending order of year. The longer the treks the more points the player gains when the trek is finished. A trek will finish automatically when a player takes a card of an earlier year than the top card of their current trek. Ancestor cards can help fill in the timeline temporarily as they have no year attached. Each ancestor card has wild benefit as well as helping them fufill the itinerary of the player. They aren't always the optimal decision but when th...